In this LearnLiberty video[1], Elizabeth Price Foley discusses the constitutionality (or not) of Obamacare. One of my favorite lines from the video occurs right at the opening: “Forcing Americans to buy something is a coerced contract. And a coerced contract is an oxymoron under the law.”

Vulgar Keynesianism – being incomparably attractive to politicians because it is simply another name for the jumble of confusions toted about by the economically uninformed man-in-the-street – is running at full gallop in the White House. Shikha Dalmia explains[5].

Speaking of evidence of the validity of public-choice[7] economics, here’s more[8]: the Senate, by a landslide, refused to approve Sen. Rand Paul’s proposal to trim the farm subsidies welfare doled out to farmers (and “farmers”). (Folks who fantasize that Republicans generally are principled opponents of big government should pay special heed to this reality.)

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[1] In this LearnLiberty video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-WISvX-SKI&feature=plcp

[2] In today’s New York Daily News, I explore some of the economic fallacies that motivated Neil Munro’s now-infamous question to Pres. Obama regarding immigrants: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/immigrant-labor-helps-article-1.1098733